Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter, principally of interest to British businessmen. Now it has mushroomed into the most damaging political scandal to face Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher since she took office in 1979. Three weeks ago, Michael Heseltine, Thatcher's Defense Minister, stormed out of a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street and quit over the government's handling of what has become known as "the Westland affair." Last week the controversy claimed another victim: Trade and Industry Minister Leon Brittan, a friend and political ally of Thatcher's, who was forced to resign from the government...
...series based on Peter's life. But the production is in turmoil from the start, and the movie's creator is fired before the crew sets foot on Russian soil. The Soviet bureaucracy and brutal cold cause countless hardships and delays. Then the star falls ill and has to quit before filming is complete. His role is taken over by an unknown look-alike...
...deep bench and an offensive attack that refuses to quit doesn't hurt much, either...
...detection has been honed since last summer's tryout by Director Wilford Leach and Choreographer Graciela Daniele, the team that made a zonked- out Pirates of Penzance a 1981 Broadway triumph. Fully half of Holmes' songs are instantly hummable, notably the sweet Perfect Strangers and the plucky Don't Quit While You're Ahead. The show's style calls for singing and charm more than acting. That is just what it gets from Jazz Great Cleo Laine and Broadway Veterans Patti Cohenour, Betty Buckley and especially George Rose as a smug, unflappable...
...matters, McFarlane's differences with Shultz and Weinberger were often tactical rather than ideological. Last August McFarlane wanted to push Shultz and the President away from their support of the Botha regime in South Africa as the antiapartheid protests mounted. He even hinted that if he failed, he might quit. He was the first to fashion a plan to get the Government started on the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as Star Wars. But he came to see it basically as a means to pressure the Soviet Union toward resuming arms talks and eventually achieving a sharp reduction in offensive weapons...